Immigration policy under Conservative rule over the last decade has been underpinned by a seemingly simple mandate to reduce immigration. Yet, ideologically the...
Migration is likely to remain one of the world's most important political challenges throughout the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, public attitudes to im...
Long before Boris Johnson gave his robust view of business opposition to Brexit, the Conservative Party had an ambivalent relationship to business interests. Mr...
In Jonathan Coe's recent novel Middle England, one of the characters offers this reflection: ‘A more cheering thought rose up: the realisation that here, on th...
Imagine, for a second, a radical right
voter; someone, perhaps from UKIP or AfD, or even the National Rally (formerly
National Front). The image coming to mind...
On 27 April 1968, Richard Crossman reflected in his diary on Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. Powell had delivered the speech a week earlier in a bid to...
Greeted by a storm of controversy, the government announced earlier in the year that it would spend £20 million on a programme to teach Muslim women to speak En...
In recent years, migration has been at the core of debates in Europe. While most governments have been concerned about the management of an unprecedented influ...